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Politics Quotes by John Jay Chapman
- Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
- Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them…
- The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
- The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.…
- If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature,…
- If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle